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Chat Thread- Mako and Mt Olive Dipping Vibes

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Huge fire rigs are not super efficient; ~5 percent of calls actually require the fire fighting component of the rig's capabilities. Well-appointed Tahoes (or other big trucks) can also be super effective in responding to lower-acuity calls and can amplify a departments ability to respond to call volume (because 2-3 people in a truck can respond instead of a crew of 6 in an engine). That said, where there often ends up being a lot of pushback is from the political side - nobody wants to be the person who takes a fire truck off the line, potentially increasing response times to the areas serviced by that station. For smaller jurisdictions, they also may not have that flexibility in the vehicles because each incremental rig is that much more important. It's a lot easier to swap to other options when your n+1 is going from 20 to 21, as opposed to a smaller town talking about 1 or 2 engines.
 
Why has no one thought of fire-fighting drones yet? I'm literally right now the first one to think of that. Someone take my idea and go do that.
 
DeacDiggler said:
i'm almost positive you inadvertenly omitted fire truck efficiency from your list of expertises
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Nah, public safety system finance SME... you know what costs money? Fire engines. You know what costs less money? Rapid response vehicles.
 
Drones are already used for heat mapping in wildland fire deployments, as well as in risk assessment for prevention work.
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lbE08 said:
Nah, public safety system finance SME... you know what costs money? Fire engines. You know what costs less money? Rapid response vehicles.
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so it turns out i just didn't understand what you were talking about.
 
another nice thing about winning tonight is that it improves the overall quality of the ACC, thus improving the quality of all of our other games. having a good wake team would reduce the perception that the acc sucks other than UNC and maybe Duke.
 
lbE08 said:
Nah, public safety system finance SME... you know what costs money? Fire engines. You know what costs less money? Rapid response vehicles.
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Counterpoint, Find me a two year old who screams rapid response vehicle when one drives by. Firetrucks are far superior.

Last week when my one of my twins came home with artwork describing how he was going to change the world, his answer was not rapid response vehicles.
 
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